Fashola's celebration of 2,000 days in office amid apparent poverty, human rights abuses is shameful, says Lagos PDP

Opeyemi Adesina

As the Lagos State Government celebrates 2,000 days in office tomorrow, Sunday, the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described it as a jamboree that is absolutely shameful and irrational.

In a statement made available to the Press, the Publicity Secretary of the party, Barr. Taofik Gani, marvelled at the monumental financial waste that accompanies such unnecessary exercise and asserted that such monies would improve lives and provide more social services if utilised.

The party submitted that celebrating days without commensurate infrastructure is inglorious and deceitful, hence threatened to invite the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the state having observed that such is a conduit pipe for defrauding the state .

The statement reads in part: "The Lagos State PDP is cautioning the ACN government of Lagos State not to waste Lagos funds in its disillusioned and misdirected celebrations of the number of days in government.

"We posit that the monumental amount usually spent on mobilising ACN members to such party can be ploughed to improve the lots of Lagosians rather than living in fool's world that Lagosians are happy with them.

"The Party challenges the ACN to dare Lagosians by measuring its achievements through street parade and see whether the reactions will be positive or negative.

"Honestly, this is a pathologicaly deceitful and propagandist political party that has indeed become a metastatised shameless party in government. How on earth can a sensible government plan celebration in Office when there is apparent poverty, lack of employment, underpaid civil servants and violation of human Rights to mention a few.

"Inspite getting total revenue of over 56billion Naira Monthly, the State is still not enjoying such developments that are social services. All the assumed developments in the State are indeed by concessionaires and donors. Notwithstanding, they are highly paid for to enjoy. The celebration will be another talk Party of "I will do" and not "I have done" It is our belief that monies are been syphoned through this activity because it is just too often and non-sensical" "We may invite the EFCC into the activities of certain parastatals and contractors of the Lagos State Government now discovered as conduits for the looting of Lagos Funds.